
UN Pushes to Revive Cyprus Peace Talks With New York Summit
Rival Cypriot leaders will meet next week with UN chief António Guterres after a rare series of confidence-building steps raised hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough.

Rival Cypriot leaders will meet next week with UN chief António Guterres after a rare series of confidence-building steps raised hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough.
During a call with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Szíjjártó praised Russia for pursuing diplomacy with Washington despite Western Europe’s push for escalation.

‘Operation Spider Web’ was meant to push Moscow toward being more open to a quick resolution, but might have had the opposite effect.
Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said President Putin is “in favour of high-level contacts.”
The Russian president regards NATO enlargement as the root of the conflict and insists that any peace agreement include formal written guarantees addressing it.
“If Putin is not comfortable with a bilateral meeting, or if everyone wants it to be a trilateral meeting, I don’t mind,” the Ukrainian leader said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Europe “attempts to undermine the negotiation process,” Russian FM Lavrov said.

The U.S. president warned that Brussels’ approach could make the situation in Ukraine “much worse.”
The Italian prime minister said she got confirmation from Pope Leo XIV during a phone conversation.
European leaders seem to be sticking to their unrealistic agenda despite President Trump including them in working out the next steps for a peace deal.